@[email protected] to [email protected]Українська • 1 year agoHow Russian colonialism took the Western anti-imperialist Left for a ridewww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down17cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigodlinkfedilink11•1 year agoI’m still amazed so many of my anti-imperialists don’t recognize that Russia is being imperialist here. It seems so obvious.
minus-squareSlowNPClinkfedilink9•1 year agoMakes sense to me; I’ve seen how it happens. Recognize the US govt’s imperialim Notice that US mainstream media generally downplays US imperialism Discover that RT gleefully covers and condemns US imperialism Conclude that mainstream news are corporate war apologists, while RT “tells it like it is” Walk around telling people that Ukraine is full of Nazis trying to genocide Russian-speaking Ukrainians, and Putin is just trying to stop the purge.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoSome people just cannot handle moral ambiguity, I guess.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•1 year agoA war of conquest, they’re claiming Ukrainian land as theirs. It’s wild people believe this is about Russia defending itself. They’ve left the vast majority of their country undefended in order to focus on Ukraine.
I’m still amazed so many of my anti-imperialists don’t recognize that Russia is being imperialist here. It seems so obvious.
Makes sense to me; I’ve seen how it happens.
Recognize the US govt’s imperialim
Notice that US mainstream media generally downplays US imperialism
Discover that RT gleefully covers and condemns US imperialism
Conclude that mainstream news are corporate war apologists, while RT “tells it like it is”
Walk around telling people that Ukraine is full of Nazis trying to genocide Russian-speaking Ukrainians, and Putin is just trying to stop the purge.
Some people just cannot handle moral ambiguity, I guess.
A war of conquest, they’re claiming Ukrainian land as theirs.
It’s wild people believe this is about Russia defending itself. They’ve left the vast majority of their country undefended in order to focus on Ukraine.